Mindfulness
Review Guided Change moments without reducing them to wins and losses
Read attempts, setbacks, and observations together so your next step reflects the context behind your goal history.
In brief
Open the goal and read several related moments, including difficult attempts and exceptions. Look at the opportunity, action, and circumstances in each entry. Choose one adjustment you can explain from those records rather than judging progress from a single event.
Start with the events behind the goal
A goal history can contain a strong attempt on a difficult day and a missed opportunity on an easy one. Reading only the broad outcome hides that difference. Open the actual moments and read what happened before deciding whether the goal needs a new approach. The detail is often more useful than your first impression of the week.
In Guided Change, moments can describe attempts, progress, setbacks, and observations. They are selected records of your experience, not a complete measurement of every opportunity you had. A quiet week in the app may mean fewer entries, fewer opportunities, or both. Start by working out which explanation fits.
Compare circumstances before comparing outcomes
Choose a few entries that relate to the same part of your goal. For each, identify the situation, the action you tried, and what made it easier or harder. Include an exception that does not fit your first explanation. If the moments are very different, say so rather than forcing them into a trend.
Use a short review in your own words. You do not need to assign a score or calculate a success rate from incomplete entries. These prompts keep the review close to things the records can actually support.
- Did the same kind of opportunity occur in each moment?
- What did I actually try, and what only remained an intention?
- Which practical constraint changed the situation?
- Which entry challenges the explanation I was about to settle on?
Example: practicing a pause before accepting work
Suppose your goal is to pause before accepting an extra task. One moment records asking for time to check your schedule. Another records saying yes immediately during an unexpected call. A third describes choosing to accept because you had room. Calling the second a loss and the other two wins would miss what you were practicing.
A better review might be: “I remembered to check my schedule when the request arrived by message, but not during a call.” Your next experiment could be preparing a short sentence for live requests. That adjustment follows from the setting in your records instead of a general conclusion about willpower.
Make one decision from the review
Decide whether to continue the same practice or narrow the action you attempt next. Make the reason explicit in your reflection. “Keep practicing the pause during calls” is easier to revisit than “try harder.” If the goal no longer fits your needs, its menu lets you pause it, mark it complete, or archive it.
If you request AI insight, remember that it uses credits and works from the moments you recorded. Read the interpretation beside the source entries. Correct missing context in your own reflection, and do not treat a confident summary as evidence that the system has measured your mental health or understood every part of the situation.
Related Moodwell feature
Revisit the moments behind a goal
Guided Change gives your attempts and observations a continuing place so you can review the context over time.
Review Guided Change